WIP

Been working on a little LOTR diorama.

I bought the troll partly painted and added a few figures, I've already had.
I thought, the two hobbits made a could contrast to the size of the troll. In the back, Grishna is seeking safety behind the troll.

All I have to do is to finish the right arm.

Mumak

I finished the Mumak.

Here are first pics of it. I'm currently working on the crew as well as the larger base for the planned diorama.

For something completely different...

... I painted a base for a LOTR Mumakil, which I received partly built.

It took me four days to finish, but was a lot of fun painting it. Almost to nice to put that big Mumak on top of it.
I'm planning to integrate it in a diorama with a slightly larger baseplate in order to add a few Rohan riders attacking the Mumak.

We'll see...

40mm Cruisader

This is my latest aquisition.

A 40mm figure depicting a cruisader. I bought it this way, but can't say who made it... .

Does anyone know?

Anyway, it's been beautifully painted and a nice asset to my collection.

My first ever horse

Hi,

I finished my first horse today!
It's a 40mm horse from the HLBS napoleonic range and will soon carry a british hussar (in the making...)

I was a little afraid of painting horses at first for the large areas frightend me a little.
But after trying out several techniques, I found "my" way of doing it:

Basecoat - Wash of basecoat with some black - from then on dry-brushing in several layers with basecoat getting lighter with the time.

I'm quite happy with the result. In reality, the horse looks astonishingly "real". I almost thought it would jump off my table... ;-)

Hope, you'll like it.

The base will be covered with grass and bushes a little later.

The Great Escape diorama

My latest aquisition, a diorama depicting the movie "The Great Ecape".

The figures are by Ebob miniatures. The building as well as the rest of the diorama are selfmade - unfortunately not by me... .

I bought it from a friend, who is a great artist when it comes to dioramas. Due to lack of space he was willing to part with it. Good for me!

I think, Ebob did a good job with those figures. If you look closely, you can easily spot individual characters of the movie, e.g. Steve McQueen... .

Need Advice

I urgently need advice on how to paint those two napoleonic cavalry.
I don't have much clue about this era and all my research on the net didn't get me anywhere.

Here's the first figure:

It's supposed to be a french hussar, but what regiment? What stuns me most is the saddle, etc. on the horse. It looks so different from all images I have found, since it doesn't have that felt cover.

And here's the second one:

I'd appreciate it, if someone could help me quickly, since I'm not able to continue painting it... .